Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Evelyn Scott, also wrote under pseudonyms Ernest Souza and Elsie Dunn
American Novelist, Playwright and Poet
"To have one’s individuality completely ignored is being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a candle."
"A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all"
"Death envies those asleep in her... extinguished softly in her womb."
"Death is a child of stone."
"Pain sends out long tentacles and sucks. When I have given up struggling he takes me into his arms."
"The day is so long and white, a road all dust, smooth monotony; and the night at the end, a hill to be climbed, slowly, laboriously, while the stars prick our hands like thistles."
"To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows out a light."
"The moon... is a mad woman holding up her dress so that her white belly shines. Haughty, impregnable, ridiculous, silent and white as a debauched queen."